Improvement in fare-registers



A. F JOHNSON. Fare-Register.

Patented Sept. 14,1875.-

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ETERS. PNOTLLITNDGRAPHER. WASHING N UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrcn ALBERTF. JOHNSON, OF PARKVILLE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN FARE-REGISTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 167,670, datedSeptember 14,1875; application filed June 23, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT F. JoHNsoN, of Parkville, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented an Improved Fare-RegisteringApparatus; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in devices to be carried byconductors on railroad-cars for the purpose of recording the faresreceived by such conductors as soon as received, and by means of thisimprovement each fare as soon as received is immediately recorded on acontinuous strip of paper within the apparatus, and inaccessible to theperson who receives the money, and the fact of such record having beenmade is at the same time made known by the sounding of a bell or gong,also located within the apparatus, before the party receiving the moneyhas passed on from the passenger who pays it.

My improvements consist in the means employed for registering fares bystamping or impressing upon a continuous strip of paper within theapparatus each fare received also, in connection therewith in improvedmeans for striking a bell or gong within the apparatus, for the purposeof giving notice that such record has been made of each fare received,and in the combinations and arrangements of the several parts with eachother so as to provide a simple and convenient apparatus to be carriedby the conductor or person receiving the fares, which will indicate,without error, the number of fares and half-fares received on each trip,and will constitute an eifectual check upon the return made by theconductor to his superintendent at the termination of his trip.

In the accompanying drawings, which represent an apparatus adapted forrecording both fares and half-fares, Figure 1 represents a plan View,partly in section through the line 12, of the devices for printing orimpressing on a strip of paper each fare received. Fig. 2 is a similarview, on the line 3 4, of the devices for striking the hell or gong.FigS is atrans verse vertical section, and Fig. 4 is a detail viewhereinafter referred to.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all theseveral figures.

A represents the main body of the apparatus, which may be cylindrical inform, and made of any suitable metal. B is'a metal plate secured withinthe latter, and which divides the same into two compartments, the one(shown at the right of Fig. 3) for holding the devices for impressingupon the paper the number of fares received, and the other (shown on theleft of said Fig. 3) in which the bell H is located. Connected, withthese compartment are two cylindrical necks G and U, which are securedat their bases to the rim of the main body A of the apparatus, andwithin which are respectively located and fitted the plungers D D,(hereinafter particularly described,) each of which terminates in aknob, to and h, at its upper end, which are struck, the former when afull fare is to be recorded, and the latter when a half-fare is to berecorded. A pawl, a, pivoted within a longitudinal groove in the plungerD, and actuated by a spring, 8, engages with a ratchet-wheel, b, fittedon a pin or shaft having bearings in the plate B, to which wheel I) isattached a roller, 0, having figures or other characters embossed on itsperiphery, which work in contact with a pressure-roller, d. A strip ofpaper, or other suitable material, F, held upon a roller, E,'which hasbearings in the plate B, is passed over the roller 0 and between it andthe pressure-roller cl, and at each stroke of the plunger D theratchet-wheel bis moved the distance of one tooth, carrying around withit the roller 0, and an impression is made on the paper, which latterpasses downward and lies in the body of the box.

When the apparatus both fares and half-fares, or different kinds offares, a second strip of paper, F, is employed, which is operated in thesame manner by the plunger D through the medium of a duplicate set ofdevices, similar to those just described, consisting of roller E,impressingroller 0, pressure roller 61, ratchet-wheel b. A projectingpin or rod, f, is formed on the lower end of the plunger D, on the sideopposite to that on which the pawl a is pivoted, which, when the knob ofthe plunger D is is designed to recordstruck, comes in contact with ahell or gong, H, thereby sounding the bell at one and the same time thatthe impression is made on the paper A similar pin or rod,f, is formed onthe plunger D, for the purpose of sounding the bell at the time ahalf-fare is recorded. Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the plunger. h hare springs for retracting the plungers. The imprinting-rollers c 0 mayhave embossed on their periphery any desirable figure or character to beimpressed upon the paper which will designate the number ofares-received, and the two coils of paper on which such impressions aremade, may be of different colors, so as to distinguish more readily thefares from the half-fares.

In the drawing the ratchet-wheels I) b are represented as having tenteeth, so that ten impressions will be made on the paper for eachrevolution of the rollers c c, and a convenient form of impressionswould be to have nine short transverse lines, and one long line embossedon each roller, so that the impressions will be divided into groups often, each group designated by one long line. The knobs of the plungersare provided with any suitable distinctive marks to prevent the knobwhich is struck to record a full fare being mistaken for the other, orvice versaa The sides of the apparatus or box are hinged or otherwisesecured, so that access lnayreadily be obtained to the interior by theproper officer of the company, but not by the conductor, to whom theinterior is to be inaccessible.

What I claim as my invention is 1. The combination, in afare-registering device, of an imprinting-roller, c, presser-roller cl,and plunger D, the said several parts being constructed and operatedsubstantially as described, and arranged to record each fare received'upon a continuous strip of paper, F, as set forth.

2. In a fare-registering apparatus provided with an imprinting-roller,c, and a bell, H, the plunger D, having a projection, f, formed on oneside, and a pawl, a, pivoted thereto on the opposite side thereof, andarranged substantially as set forth, to strike the bell, and record thefare by one and the same stroke of the said plunger.

ALBERT F. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

JOHN S. THORNTON, GEO. R. CAR-RINGTON.

